Can I get some ears on this mix down, specifically the drums?
Hey guys,
So I just finished this track not too long ago and started shopping it to some labels. I’ve only heard back from one who passed on it, but the comment the guy gave me was that the drums “aren’t tight and crisp enough”. Now this blew me away because I really thought I nailed these drums. To me on my monitors here the kick has good bass and sounds nice and punchy, the snare is snappy and the cymbal percussion cuts through nicely.
So I’d like to get some fresh ears on this if I could for some other opinions. Should I go back and re-mix these drums or not? To my ears, I don’t know how much further forward in the mix I could bring these drums without really overpowering everything, and yet the A&R comment still stands. I posted a short clip of the songs main section just so you can get an idea:
From what I can hear (On my headphones and monitors) is that the drums sound a little bit off.
I feel like the kick is too “boxy” or too much of a certain frequency has been removed. It sounds really flat and dull.
The same with the snare. It’s audible, but their isn’t much “snap” to it.
Now take my opinion with a grain of salt. I have my own ear towards how I mix my tracks and the sound I want. I’m not trying to say my way of hearing your track is the same everyone else, but that’s just what I think.
I did, and apparently Soundcloud wasn’t letting me embed it on this site for whatever reason. So i switched it to a dropbox link, its still a streaming link if thats what u are worried about.
See this is one thing i hate about producing, on my speakers the snare is super snappy and on yours you cant even hear it. How am i supposed to adjust for that? I’ll try and work on the kick though, I think its almost too punchy and not bassy enough, those are the missing/excessive frequencies you are hearing perhaps.
[QUOTE]From what I can hear (On my headphones and monitors) is that the drums sound a little bit off.
I feel like the kick is too “boxy” or too much of a certain frequency has been removed. It sounds really flat and dull.
The same with the snare. It’s audible, but their isn’t much “snap” to it.
Now take my opinion with a grain of salt. I have my own ear towards how I mix my tracks and the sound I want. I’m not trying to say my way of hearing your track is the same everyone else, but that’s just what I think.[/QUOTE]
See this is one thing i hate about producing, on my speakers the snare is super snappy and on yours you cant even hear it. How am i supposed to adjust for that? I’ll try and work on the kick though, I think its almost too punchy and not bassy enough, those are the missing/excessive frequencies you are hearing perhaps.
i went back and re did the mixdown on the whole drums section and gave a boost to everything. Also added some parallel compression, something i wasn’t doing before, seems to have helped
